Autopia, Cars and culture.

Contents:

1. PETER WOLLEN: Introduction: Cars and Culture
2. JOE KERR: Thematic Introductions

CARS IN CULTURE

3. PETER WOLLEN: Automobiles and Art
4. ALLEN SAMUELS: Accidents: The Car and Literature
5. PATRICK FIELD: No Particular Place to Go
6. E. L. WIDMER: Crossroads: The Automobile, Rock and Roll and Democracy
7. DAVID PASCOE:Vanishing Points
8. A. L. REES: Moving Spaces
9. ERIC MOTTRAM: Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Cars in American Films

CARS AND CAPITAL

10. JOE KERR:Trouble in Motor City
11. DONALD RICHIE: Some Thoughts on Car Culture in Japan
12. DIRK LEACH : Technik
13. MICHAEL R. LEAMAN: Riding the Survivors of the Soviet Union
14. VIVIANA NAROTZKY: Our Cars in Havana
15. GEREMIE R. BARMÉ: Engines of Revolution: Car Cultures in China
16. PETER HAMILTON: The Lada: A Cultural Icon
17. ADRIAN OTOIU: Automobile Metempsychoses in the Land of Dracula
18. ZIAUDDIN SARDAR: The Ambassador from India
19. CATHERINE ADDISON: Dangerous but Irrepressible: Cars and Driving in Post-Apartheid South Africa
20. CHRISTOPHER PINNEY: Automonster

MOTOR SPACES

21. MARSHALL BERMAN: Robert Moses: The Expressway World
22. ANDREW CROSS: Driving the American Landscape
23. JANEJACOBS: Erosion of Cities or Attrition of Automobiles
24. JANE HOLTZKAY: The Asphalt Exodus
25. DAVID BRODSLY: L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay
26. RICHARD J. WILLIAMS: Pleasure and the Motorway
27. MICHAEL BRACEWELL: Fade to Grey: Motorways and Monotony
28. MARC AUGÉ: Roundabouts and Yellow Lines
29. IAN PARKER: Traffic
30. SANDY McCREERY: ComeTogether
31. JACK SARGEANT: Squealing Wheels and Flying Fists
32. MURRAY FRASER & JOE KERR: Motopia: Cities, Cars and Architecture

MYTHS AND MOTORS

33. ILYAEHRENBURG: The Birth of the Automobile
34. ROLAND BARTHES: The New Citroen
35. PATRICK KEILLER: Sexual Ambiguity and Automotive Engineering
36. KARAL ANN MARLING: America's Love AfFair with the Automobile in the Television Age
37. GRACE LEES-MAFFEI: Men, Motors, Markets and Women
38. MARTIN PAWLEY: The Downfall of the Dymaxion Car

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